Played a little bit of the SP and I have to say that I am impressed with the graphics so far!
I am playing with two HD 7970's in Crossfire with no issues so far. I have everything maxed out and Motion BLur disabled. Game feels and looks great to me. Textures are amazing
Haven't played MP yet with this release, but I will soon...

Single player is indeed significantly more impressive than the MP Alpha/Beta. Far and away the best looking game yet released. IMO it's similar to the original Crysis in that the graphics are so good that they elevate your experience with the game overall.

It does melt PCs, though... I'm playing maxed out with 2xSMAA at 1440p on a pair of overclocked 7970s and getting about 45fps average with minimums around the 30 mark. Very playable, no issues. I'm happy with that.

I am a little disappointed that the campaign is just 7 levels, but it is a LOT more fun than Crysis 2 so far.

Single player is indeed significantly more impressive than the MP Alpha/Beta. Far and away the best looking game yet released. IMO it's similar to the original Crysis in that the graphics are so good that they elevate your experience with the game overall.

It does melt PCs, though... I'm playing maxed out with 2xSMAA at 1440p on a pair of overclocked 7970s and getting about 45fps average with minimums around the 30 mark. Very playable, no issues. I'm happy with that.

I am a little disappointed that the campaign is just 7 levels, but it is a LOT more fun than Crysis 2 so far.

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lol im screwed. running a pair of stock 7970s but at 5760x1200. cant wait to see what that's like.

Single player is indeed significantly more impressive than the MP Alpha/Beta. Far and away the best looking game yet released. IMO it's similar to the original Crysis in that the graphics are so good that they elevate your experience with the game overall.

It does melt PCs, though... I'm playing maxed out with 2xSMAA at 1440p on a pair of overclocked 7970s and getting about 45fps average with minimums around the 30 mark. Very playable, no issues. I'm happy with that.

I am a little disappointed that the campaign is just 7 levels, but it is a LOT more fun than Crysis 2 so far.

I'm not too worried about it, since I'm not experiencing any corruption with AA enabled and the beta 6 drivers don't claim any performance improvements. Hoping for a beta 7 or something else that offers a performance bump.

One thing that I'm very thankful for is that I've experienced almost zero stutter. Sometimes crossfire can have some nasty stuttering when the framerate dips below 60 consistently, but not here. I haven't even had to fire up Radeon Pro for it

Could well be AMD's relationship with the developers. Something they've hitherto been a bit rubbish at. Nvidia had the best strategy to work with developers and AMD have finally bought into it. Better drivers and better relations with developers = less buggy experience.

Could well be AMD's relationship with the developers. Something they've hitherto been a bit rubbish at. Nvidia had the best strategy to work with developers and AMD have finally bought into it. Better drivers and better relations with developers = less buggy experience.

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I was a bit when I saw that AMD Gaming Evolved logo at the start of the game rather than the Nvidia TWIMTBP one that I'm so used to seeing on AAA games.

I'm a bit curious if there's tesselated ocean under the whole world like there was in Crysis 2, though

Well, now I know why 4-6gb of VRAM is, well not that unreasonable.
Max Settings + max MSAA + 5760x1080 res = swap-fest. Afterburner shows unholy 9gb usage ( which is not correct, never is for some reasons, when it comes to tri-fire). But nevertheless it swaps badly.
Took down MSAA to medium - now shows 7gb and actually works fine.
GPU usage across all three of my 7970s - 60-70% at most.